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Vanity wiki

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A '''vanity wiki''' is a [[wiki ]] that is used as a {{tag|personal }} {{w|vanity press}} for , and may include [[:Category:Advertising|advertising ]] (including particularly self-promotion), self-deprecation, or attempts to become an Internet internet [[:Category:Celebrity|celebrity]]. A vanity wiki can sometimes be a [[bliki]] ; used for journaling, propagation of one's [[:Category:Ideas|ideas ]] and [[:Category:Opinion|opinions]], etc.
Per WikiIndex community standards, any wiki that (1) only has one user, and (2) The term is owned by the user who is adding it to WikiIndexall means a {{tag|point of view}}, because it is considered more about the believed intentions of the person or persons behind the endeavour, and not about observable facts. So when anybody calls a vanity wiki. Such listings are deleted as spamnames, you know now what it means in this case.
==;Examples==[[AbbeNormal]] is a vanity wiki that made it into [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia]]'s ]] [[interwiki map]], where it remains todayremained until [[Meta-Wiki:Talk:Interwiki map/Archives/2015#johnabbe.wagn.org/AbbeNormal|January 2015]]
;See also
*[[Vanity Wiki (Wikia)]] — <tt>http://vanity.Wikia.com/wiki/Vanity_Wiki</tt> – for the Wiki with the same name
*[[Vanity page]] — an individual page within an established wiki covering the same or similar ideas
 
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